If you’re just getting into square foot gardening for the first year or looking for a fresh way to plan your small space vegetable garden, you’re going to love this companion planting chart! At ...

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The key to growing a successful garden is being diligent about planning. While you may like the way a plant looks in one area of your yard, it doesn't necessarily mean that's where the greenery will ...

It’s a fact of life that certain things are infinitely better when paired together: wine and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, chips and guacamole. But this logic doesn’t apply solely in the kitchen.

Companion planting is the practice of enhancing your crop production by growing combinations of different plants close together. Some combinations can significantly benefit plants and enrich the soil, ...

As you plant flowers in the vegetable garden, play with colors and textures as the author does in her beautiful central California edible landscape. Grow a profusion of pollen- and nectar-rich blooms ...

Think of how many different kinds of plants grow in a forest or any uncultivated area. Such environments contain a large variety of plants, animals, and insects. Plants thrive in biodiversity. A ...

Broccoli is a popular cool-weather plant and a wonderful addition to any vegetable garden. Like many other cruciferous vegetables, pests like to munch on young broccoli seedlings throughout maturity, ...

When it comes to my vegetable garden, I’ll admit that I should put more method into my madness. I do a good job of rotating my crops each year, but I rarely employ the principles of companion planting ...